furlong

If you text a friend asking them to go for a trail run or a bike ride and propose the distance to them in furlongs or rods, please send me a screenshot that includes their reaction.

But Furlong became legally emancipated that same year, at the age of 16.

A mile-way is twenty minutes; a furlong-wey is two minutes and a half; and the double of it is five minutes.

A furlong-wey meant the time during which one can walk a furlong, at three miles an hour.

Then the steady gallop of Rollo told once more—another furlong, and the Ismaelian would face his doom.

It certainly makes no difference whether the land be a square furlong or a continent.

And one company of my bowmen would put them all to flight ere you could ride a furlong!